Heston Blumenthal 'Down Under' - and sous-vide cooking in the TMX!

[Halex]

Yvette, very happy you got your money back, well done

[cookie1]

Goog old Hardly Normals for giving you your money back. That is good news.

[Yvette]

They were scotch fillet steaks good quality, although not by the time they were finished 

Taking it back on Saturday 

[Andrealphus]

Yvette, I'm interested to know how you kept your steaks at 56 degrees for 2 hours - did you use a water bath, or a thermomix, or some kind of gadget to modify a slow cooker? (If either of the two latter options, did you test the water temperature at any point to check it?). It's a bloody shame (pun intended!) to ruin good fillet steak!!

Did it look medium rare when it came out? Or look over-cooked?

[Yvette]

I did use a water bath I bought the 11litre Breville followed instructions and no good they looked undercooked if anything

[Andrealphus]

Well, the appearance of steak straight out of the water bath isn't that attractive (assuming it's medium rare, or not too far either side), it's the quick searing in/on a very hot pan which gives it the flavour and an attractive look - although by the sounds of it, if it seemed undercooked and was chewy etc., it was the steak that was bad! Hope you have better luck next time!

[Yvette]

Thanks Andrea have taken it back have lost interest after the first attempt